Impressions from our Manufacturing Process
While manufacturing our »Liam Gillick Charity-Pins«, we took the opportunity to photographically document the manufacturing process.
The pin badges, designed as decorative items embossed with precious metal, are approx. 21 mm in size, with a pin post and spring fastener and are presented in a black MDF box.
Material: 925 sterling silver with a high-tech PVD (Physical Vapour Deposition) finish in black and with synthetic enamel in 10 colours.
Production stages: fabrication of the steel embossing die and die mould, embossing, stamping, soldering, polishing, application of PVD coating*, enamelling
** For a PVD coating, the surface is »bombarded« with pure metal particles, such as titanium, zircon and chrome, under extreme vacuum conditions. It is therefore extremely resistant to wear. To allow a PVD coating to be applied to silver, the silver pin badges have to undergo a hard gold plating process.